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'A sharpened machete in an overgrown place'.
Here sits the remnants to history of a company office, from the by-gone era of a once thriving local logging industry. The standing structures, all but gone, masonry remnants, strewn & scattered. Covered in weeds, twisted in vines. Mortar seeps through the cracks, of old earthen covered bricks. A rusty nail, a broken tile, and a dirty flimsy shingle. Take a rest to stop and think to decades gone-by. Distinct echoes of human chatter, the sawmill whistle, to the whirling and whining of saw blades, grinding as they split through fresh cut wood. The clatter as the lumber stacks, ready to ship away to distant places. The horn blowing sound of a locomotive, as the wheels begin to turn in rotation in forward motion. The work day for them ends, to the sound of the sawmill whistle.
Saratoga Creek trickles toward the sea at low tide, alongside Cape Hedge. Apparently, there may have been a pier above the creek; just a few traces of pilings remain.
I have photographed this scene many times, but only today, with the conversion to monochrome, am I pleased with the result.
Addendum: With the help of local historian Paul St. Germain and a photo book published by the Sandy Bay Historical Society, I have learned that there was a ballast wharf here in the very early 1900s, so that ships needing ballast could come in at high tide and have round "popple" stones, abundant on the adjacent beach, loaded aboard, after being raised by a scoop and winch to an elevated platform. By the 1920s, a much larger, higher loading ramp had been built. Now, there are only remnants, no longer mysterious, at least to me.
The adjacent Cape Hedge Beach, with its impressive seawall constructed of popples, can be seen here: flic.kr/p/2oFDpYL
"Popples" is the local name given to moderate sized stones that geologists call cobbles.
Remnants of the massive 1980 eruption of Mt. St Helens. As a teenager, my family lived in Edmonds, Washington, some 100+ miles from the mountain. That Sunday morning I awoke just as the mountain started to erupt. I've always wondered if it was the rumble that caused me to wake up?
A semi-apocish post, inspired by meh dude Mason. WWII comin' up next week, y'all hold on to ya horsies 'till then.
Enjoy and God bless.
Jesse
Remnant from the past embedded in the brick wall outside Brisbane Powerhouse.
The Brisbane Powerhouse building was once a working power station which electrified the city from the 1920s to the 1970s. Left abandoned, the city’s artists, rebels and fringe-dwellers used the building as a performance space, home and underground hang-out.
The redeveloped Brisbane Powerhouse was designed by Brisbane City Council architect Peter Roy and was opened in 2000. Seven years later the building underwent a further stage of development to increase audience capacities, restaurant and bar facilities as well as functions and conference spaces. Brisbane Powerhouse was re-opened in 2007.
Macro Mondays - Macro textures ... HMM everyone!
Last frames from a sunrise over Warilla Beach, Windang a couple of weeks back.
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO100 f/11 15mm -3.7 and -0.3ev
Raw deeveloped in DxO PhotoLab6, stacked and blended in ON1 PhotoRaw 2023.5, colour graded in Nik6 Color Efex, tweaked in Topaz AI and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Quarantine, Day 12
Walberswick - Old Pier.
A long exposure from some years ago.
The atmosphere of this image seems appropriate for the challenge we are facing globally at present.
Thank you for taking the time to view some of my images.
Igreja de São Domingos, Lisbon.
Former home of the Inquisition, and of royal weddings. Dedicated in 1241, ravaged by earthquakes in 1531 and 1755, gutted by fire in 1959, reopened in 1994.
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The slowly decomposing trunk of a once great forest tree.
Here's the same scene 4 years ealier www.flickr.com/photos/117700426@N08/24644272308/in/datepo...
Remnants of Rain
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Dumfries Airfield was a WW2 aircraft maintenance and repair base. Today it is an industrial park and a surprisingly large number of the WW2 buildings survive, including around 6 large aircraft hangars. Shown here is one of the smallest survivors, one of several remaining concrete pillboxes sited to control the perimeter approach roads.